So Alf and ET were one of my first digital illustrations with photoshop. I really liked the composition and drawing for it, but the final thing was too blurry, and not painted well. So... I redid it. And I think the remake is better than the original(below).
You may not have known this, but One-Eyed Ogres are not very good at Whack-A-Mole. Actually, pretty much anything with one eye would suck at whack-a-mole. On account of the lack of depth perception and all. :) .)
This is my unfinished take on the latest challenge on the Avalanche Software Art Blog. They took two images of Joe Olsen's and you were supposed to paint them or do your own take on them. I picked this image:
It's been a while since I put something on here. I've just been busying moving into an apartment and starting a new part-time job to help pay the bills. We went to the Zoo on my wife's Birthday, and some of the coolest animals there were the tigers. So looking through my Zoo pictures I was inspired to do this.
...let's put the lightning and mer-creature in one awesome picture! YA!!!! Hey... it kinda looks like he's licking the lightning. HA! I think I'll call it "Lickin' Lighting". Sweet.
So I touched it up a tad. I tried to make the gorilla look more powerful and large. I altered his pose (mostly the legs) to make him look less static in the air. And changed the composition a bit. And added a little fog of course. :)